The two new facilities were described as pipelines for Maine’s youth to enter the shipbuilding and aerospace fields.
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Maine’s space industry, facing pushback on land, looks to the sea
The Maine Space Corporation, which lawmakers recently voted to make a nonprofit, is looking into sea-based launch platforms.
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Brunswick students send scientific instrument into space on Blue Origin
Partnering with a nonprofit, students at St. John’s Catholic School designed an experiment that flew in the rocket’s payload during the historic flight on April 14.
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Biddeford-based Fiber Materials, Inc. to be sold
The Biddeford-based company Fiber Materials, Inc. (FMI) could be sold for $165 million to Tex-Tech Industries. The company, owned by Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, currently employs 400 people and manufactures heat-resistant aerospace components. “FMI’s products are installed on critical defense platforms as well as NASA programs such as Stardust, Mars Curiosity, Orion, and Mars 2020,” according […]
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NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter’s moon Europa in search of the right conditions for life
It will take Europa Clipper more than 5 years to reach Jupiter and sneak close to the moon suspected to have an ocean beneath its crust.
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SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck in space
A downsized crew will bring them home but not until next year.
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Tech billionaire returns to Earth after first private spacewalk
They pulled off the first private spacewalk while orbiting nearly 460 miles above Earth, higher than the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope.
Posted inTimes Record
Brunswick aerospace company’s rocket engine test delayed
The eventual test of the biofuel-powered MAREVL engine will be the latest in a series of horizontal tests to optimize flight grade performance.
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NASA decides to keep 2 astronauts in space until February, nixes return on troubled Boeing capsule
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck at the International Space Station since the beginning of June.
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NASA still deciding whether to keep 2 astronauts at space station until next year
The test pilots anticipated being away just a week or so but thruster failures and helium leaks marred the capsule’s trip to the space station, raising doubts about its ability to return safely and leaving the astronauts in limbo.